the president's going to have to raise it, and the debt ceiling is not the problem. the problem is the debt and the spending that's driving the debt. and so the number one thing is to avoid, "a," the notion that speaker boehner can trot down to the white house and somehow we can solve the nation's problems or, "b," that we want do this at the 11th hour at all. instead we want our congress and our president to do their job. and i for one believe that in moments like this, presidential leadership is an imperative. but the president doesn't want to put a plan out, and he's shown no appetite for taking on this problem. then the house should pass something, and the senate needs to act. all right, robert. >> they have not had the senate pass anything in years. >> robert, shouldn't the president be the one that comes out with a plan and says this, look, i'm so sick of this petty, stupid, sandbox unpleasantness rather than the word i would prefer to use there, i'm sick of it, and so i'm going to put out, here's my plan. >> yes. erin, the president has put out a plan. he put